I know technology gets better every year but is this coming year going to be above and beyond? Flo wheels, garmin 910xt, garmin vector, look keo power pedal, brim brothers and ultegra di2.
Did I miss anything?
And what do you think is coming down the pipeline?
I’d like to see a gps watch with real time tracking so friends and family can stay updated during races and during long workouts for fun and safety.
I don’t think anything you mention is particularly ground breaking, just an alternative to similar products. Things that may be coming.
Electronic shifting with just one controler for all gears, not separate front and rear.
Electronic automatic shifting
More intergration of tri bikes ie a bike that pretty much only works with the included wheels shifters, brakes, aerobar water bottles etc.
A non UCI tri bike that at least has some documentation that its faster than all the UCI tri bikes.
Styrrell
I like the toolkit skewer:
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I use the Wahoo Fitness (http://www.wahoofitness.com/) that turns my iPhone into a GPS and with the app my wife can track me in real time on my long Sunday rides. Gives her piece of mind.
I don’t think anything you mention is particularly ground breaking, just an alternative to similar products. Things that may be coming.
Not ground breaking but I think very cool.
A non UCI tri bike that at least has some documentation that its faster than all the UCI tri bikes.
I hope so! But I’d be surprised if it happens within 5 years.
Cervellum Hindsight…
http://www.slowtwitch.com/Products/2011_Interbike_Cerevellum_Hindsight_35__2349.html
I use the Wahoo Fitness (http://www.wahoofitness.com/) that turns my iPhone into a GPS and with the app my wife can track me in real time on my long Sunday rides. Gives her piece of mind.
Totally unaware of this, I was. Too bad I just have a classic flip phone. I’ll have to consider this next new contract for service.
I use the Wahoo Fitness (http://www.wahoofitness.com/) that turns my iPhone into a GPS and with the app my wife can track me in real time on my long Sunday rides. Gives her piece of mind.
Totally unaware of this, I was. Too bad I just have a classic flip phone. I’ll have to consider this next new contract for service.
Don’t get rid of your flip phone. It will be a valuable antique one day. I kept my motorola flip phone from 1996 and my dad kept his bag phone from early 80’s. The bag phone is bigger than my laptop. lol.
Cervellum Hindsight…
http://www.slowtwitch.com/...dsight_35__2349.html
This intrigues me because I’m paranoid about cars behind me. I ride in farm country so not too many cars pass me, but when they do it’s at high speed. When I see one in the distance, I move to the middle of the road for a bit to get in their line of sight, then move back. I also have enough LED’s on the back of my tri bike that I probable look like an ambulance or fire truck. I’m just worried this may create bad habits.
I will say my old car had a back up camera but my new car doesn’t . At first I thought that camera was a novelty. It’s absolutely brilliant and I miss it deeply. But I had to re-teach myself backing up, etc without the camera. Lot’s of times my mountain bike is on the bike, so the camera was especially valuable there. I may get one installed.
where can you get that? That really looks good.
where can you get that? That really looks good.
pedros?
not sure if its officially on the market or not
I’d like a GPS/heart rate monitor that picks up my heart rate from my wrist —no chest strap/no putting 2 fingers on the display.
where can you get that? That really looks good.
It’s on Amazon here.
I use the Wahoo Fitness (http://www.wahoofitness.com/) that turns my iPhone into a GPS and with the app my wife can track me in real time on my long Sunday rides. Gives her piece of mind.
There’s like 50+ different apps on that site. Could you give me a clue to which one you are referring?
Don’t know if it’s “coming” or not, but I’d like to see Garmin combine the capabilities of their Edge series of bike computers with their GTU 10 product so the same device could be both a GPS computer and provide tracking via cellular data. Ideally, they’d do this in a watch too, but I’m guessing the miniaturization of the parts and battery capacity haven’t quite gotten to the point where that’s reasonable yet.
I use the Wahoo Fitness (http://www.wahoofitness.com/) that turns my iPhone into a GPS and with the app my wife can track me in real time on my long Sunday rides. Gives her piece of mind.
I would never get this. She’d be sending me texts telling me to pick up the pace and stop dogging it on the climbs.
I use the Wahoo Fitness (http://www.wahoofitness.com/) that turns my iPhone into a GPS and with the app my wife can track me in real time on my long Sunday rides. Gives her piece of mind.
My son’s experience is that it chews up battery time pretty quick. Won’t last for a full IM.
Yep. We’re probably within a year of being able to have our iPhone and Android phones serve as power meters, HRMs, and GPS devices on our bikes. That will be huge.
I use the Wahoo Fitness (http://www.wahoofitness.com/) that turns my iPhone into a GPS and with the app my wife can track me in real time on my long Sunday rides. Gives her piece of mind.
Yes, it gives her peace of mind that her boyfriend will leave in plenty of time before you get home.
I hope this should be in pink for most of you.
The biggest question is the phone connection. Some phones have the ant+, wahoo uses dongle, but we are still missing universall standard on wireless connection. Low energy bluetooth could be it, but it seems that new iphone doesnt have it…
We btw in suunto launched our first mobile app - movescount iphone app. Features route planning on server, tracking on the app with summaries and can be customized with your own look and feel for your team (requires a group in movescount). So check it out!
Janne (and i’m from suunto)